Markus Echterhoff

<p>Per default, bbPress is sending subscription notification emails as one email with a bunch of BCCs. There are various reasons why it would make more sense to send individual emails. This plugin does that, quietly in the background via WP cron, without slowing down page load times. Also increases notification performance and reduces database load on large sites.</p>
<p>Translations by @mauriciogarofalo and @mechter</p>
<h4>Defaults</h4>
<p>If you don’t customize this plugin, this is what you’ll get:</p>
<ul>
<li>Sends mails from <code>"MyBlog <admin@MyBlog.foo>"</code> (with your Blog’s name and admin email)</li>
<li>Sends mail to <code>"Markus <markus@example.com>"</code> (with the name being the user’s display name on the forums, not their username)</li>
<li>Subject and Message have more user friendly defaults, use the available filters (see below) to make them your own.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Customization</h4>
<p>You can install and activate this plugin and it just works, but you have full control over the details if you want to. Below are some filters and code snippets that help you do what you want. If you’re new to working directly with code, please see the example at the bottom of this page.</p>
<h4>Available filters</h4>
<pre><code>bbp_subscription_email_from( $from ) // $from can be a string or array('name'=>string, 'address'=>string)
bbp_subscription_email_recipients( $recipients ) // $recipients is array of array('name'=>string, 'address'=>string)
bbp_subscription_email_headers( $headers )
bbp_forum_subscription_email_subject( $subject, $forum_id, $topic_id )
bbp_forum_subscription_email_message( $message, $forum_id, $topic_id )
bbp_topic_subscription_email_subject( $subject, $forum_id, $topic_id, $reply_id )
bbp_topic_subscription_email_message( $message, $forum_id, $topic_id, $reply_id )

bbp_bounce_address( $bounce_address )

bbp_subscription_disable_async( false )
bbp_forum_subscription_disable_async( false )
bbp_topic_subscription_disable_async( false )
bbp_forum_subscription_notify_author( false )
bbp_topic_subscription_notify_author( false )
</code></pre>
<h4>Helpful Snippets</h4>
<p>Here are some pointers to get the data you might want in your notifications:</p>
<pre><code>$blog_name = get_bloginfo( 'name' );

$forum_title = bbp_get_forum_title( $forum_id );

$topic_author_user_id = bbp_get_topic_author_id( $topic_id );
$topic_author_display_name = bbp_get_topic_author_display_name( $topic_id );
$topic_title = wp_specialchars_decode( strip_tags( bbp_get_topic_title( $topic_id ) ), ENT_QUOTES );
$topic_content = wp_specialchars_decode( strip_tags( bbp_get_topic_content( $topic_id ) ), ENT_QUOTES );
$topic_url = get_permalink( $topic_id );

$reply_author_user_id = bbp_get_reply_author_id( $reply_id );
$reply_author_display_name = bbp_get_topic_author_display_name( $reply_id );
$reply_content = strip_tags( bbp_get_reply_content( $reply_id ) );
$reply_url = bbp_get_reply_url( $reply_id ); // note that it's not get_permalink()
</code></pre>
<h4>Example</h4>
<p>To have a nice subject line for new topic notifications, add this to your theme’s <code>functions.php</code>. If your theme does not have this file, you can simply create it and it will be loaded automatically. Note how the example is basically just one of the filters above, mixed with some of the snippets and a return statement. It’s that simple.</p>
<pre><code>add_filter( 'bbp_forum_subscription_email_subject', function( $subject, $forum_id, $topic_id ) {
    $blog_name = get_bloginfo( 'name' );
    $topic_author_display_name = bbp_get_topic_author_display_name( $topic_id );
    $topic_title = wp_specialchars_decode( strip_tags( bbp_get_topic_title( $topic_id ) ), ENT_QUOTES );
    return "[$blog_name] $topic_author_display_name created a new topic: $topic_title";
}, 10, 3); // first is priority (10 is default and just fine), second is number of arguments your filter expects
</code></pre>


AsynCRONous bbPress Subscriptions

By default, the bbPress forum reply notification emails were not being delivered to any forum subscribers. This plugin fixed that, immediately. Upon installing the plugin, the reply notification emails will just work.



Fixes bbPress Forum Reply Notification Emails

Thank you, works like a charm

Email notifications done right. No BCC lists, no added page load time, better performance.

Automattic

Claudio Sanches

Ron Rennick

royho

Barry

Peter Fabian

sadowski

Vedanshu - a11n

Julia Amosova

Néstor Soriano Vilchez

obliviousharmony

<p>Action Scheduler is a scalable, traceable job queue for background processing large sets of actions in WordPress. It’s specially designed to be distributed in WordPress plugins.</p>
<p>Action Scheduler works by triggering an action hook to run at some time in the future. Each hook can be scheduled with unique data, to allow callbacks to perform operations on that data. The hook can also be scheduled to run on one or more occasions.</p>
<p>Think of it like an extension to <code>do_action()</code> which adds the ability to delay and repeat a hook.</p>
<h3>Battle-Tested Background Processing</h3>
<p>Every month, Action Scheduler processes millions of payments for <a href="https://woocommerce.com/products/woocommerce-subscriptions/" rel="nofollow ugc">Subscriptions</a>, webhooks for <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/woocommerce/" rel="ugc">WooCommerce</a>, as well as emails and other events for a range of other plugins.</p>
<p>It’s been seen on live sites processing queues in excess of 50,000 jobs and doing resource intensive operations, like processing payments and creating orders, at a sustained rate of over 10,000 / hour without negatively impacting normal site operations.</p>
<p>This is all on infrastructure and WordPress sites outside the control of the plugin author.</p>
<p>If your plugin needs background processing, especially of large sets of tasks, Action Scheduler can help.</p>
<h3>Learn More</h3>
<p>To learn more about how Action Scheduler works, and how to use it in your plugin, check out the docs on <a href="https://actionscheduler.org" rel="nofollow ugc">ActionScheduler.org</a>.</p>
<p>There you will find:</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://actionscheduler.org/usage/" rel="nofollow ugc">Usage guide</a>: instructions on installing and using Action Scheduler</li>
<li><a href="https://actionscheduler.org/wp-cli/" rel="nofollow ugc">WP CLI guide</a>: instructions on running Action Scheduler at scale via WP CLI</li>
<li><a href="https://actionscheduler.org/api/" rel="nofollow ugc">API Reference</a>: complete reference guide for all API functions</li>
<li><a href="https://actionscheduler.org/admin/" rel="nofollow ugc">Administration Guide</a>: guide to managing scheduled actions via the administration screen</li>
<li><a href="https://actionscheduler.org/perf/" rel="nofollow ugc">Guide to Background Processing at Scale</a>: instructions for running Action Scheduler at scale via the default WP Cron queue runner</li>
</ul>
<h3>Credits</h3>
<p>Action Scheduler is developed and maintained by <a href="http://automattic.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">Automattic</a> with significant early development completed by <a href="https://flightless.us/" rel="nofollow ugc">Flightless</a>.</p>
<p>Collaboration is cool. We’d love to work with you to improve Action Scheduler. <a href="https://github.com/woocommerce/action-scheduler/pulls" rel="nofollow ugc">Pull Requests</a> welcome.</p>


Action Scheduler

Great to have this functonality in a plugin

Looks like good and useful

How Action Scheduler only has two reviews is beyond me, though I guess I more typically use it as a library within whatever I'm developing rather than as an actual plugin. 

Regardless, Action Scheduler is awesome and an absolutely vital contribution to the WordPress community. It's really the only good way to reliably get intensive, bulk recurring actions happening with useful reporting on if scheduled events are happening and such. WAY better than trying to leverage WP's native "wp-cron" task scheduling system.

Documentation is good too. What more could you ask?

Should be in core


Developers refuse to support their own plugin.  I have no use for something that does not work, and something the developers will not support.



Cannot and will not recommend to anyone... sadly will not make much of a difference because it's in use in every site that utilizes WooCommerce, but, whatever...


Refuses to Support


A must-use if you want to schedule any type of task, no more wp_schedule headaches.


Great time savior plugin

Action Scheduler - Job Queue for WordPress

AsynCRONous bbPress Subscriptions vs Action Scheduler